Susanna Aug. 20 (just a bit later and again, I think): Vive La France!

Well, we reached France. No borders, no COVID check, no nothing. Just transitioned. And as we did, it was as if we ourselves also transitioned out of a state of complications in the first weeks of our trip. Were people friendlier and happier here or was it our more positive disposition? I am not sure. But we were so happy to reach France.

We camped in Givet, for 8 euros! A bit of a sketchy place with some campground residents staring at us non-stop and another one with a one-man disco in his tent. But we took action and were friendly to them first, so all good. We set out to look for dinner, but our first intent to get food was met with a request for our “pass sanitaire” and the french QR code, which we of course did not have. But we have our CDC COVID cards, right? No. French QR or nothing. They did allow take-outs, which we did, and then researched what we needed to do to get our French QR code. As it turns out, we could get one in any pharmacy willing to validate our CDC cards, which we decided to do the next day.